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  • Granite stater here!!! :)

    Live Free or Die rules! One way or the other, and yes, I love the work that the FSP's are doing :)

  • wow, these fish pedicures are used all over the world, how can the government be that stupid!

  • I've never heard of this before.

  • Regular pedicures are very dangerous, also, if the fish get ill they die so this ban is retarded.

  • They are doing this because of lobbying on behalf of other cosmetologist. They don't like the profits others make, so they want to outlaw that what makes their competition money.

    Same thing happens in Texas, when someone wants to decorate a home for money without a license. The state NEEDS to be able to determine weather or not you are qualified to decide if a couch looks better in this corner or that. Stupid.

  • THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SHOW YOU THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR EVEN BE A CITIZEN 

  • I'm betting the folks behind ReasonTV are in favor of ending gay marriage in NH, and in favor of making abortions harder to access. The REAL nanny state is in your underwear, your bedroom, and your marriage. NH Teabaglicans are the biggest proponents of the nanny state.

  • @antiquefeminist Generally Libertarians don't see a problem with gay marriage, because the state has no business interfering with it. As for abortion it's hit or mis for libertarian. Go post that crap on a Neo-con vid. not a libertarian one.

  • @asleeperj Not in NH, babydoll. The libertarians are in bed with the GOP. So are the freestaters. Perhaps you ought to stop posting crap when clearly you know nothing about what you're talking about.

  • @antiquefeminist This is a libertarian video. IE for the real libertarians. Ask a libertarian if the government should be involved in marriages. Any marriages, straight or otherwise. If they really are a libertarian they would say no.

  • @asleeperj Check out the voting records of the REAL libertarians serving in the NH government. Except that you aren't from NH, are you? That's why you don't get it.

  • @antiquefeminist I do not care who calls themselves libertarian. Again, just because some Neocon calls himself a libertarian does not make him so, just like sticking feathers up your butt doesn't make you a chicken. Any association that is voluntary should be allowed in a free society. I'll ask, do you believe that individuals should be free as long as they do not infringe upon others right to life, liberty, or property?

  • @asleeperj So that's a yes. You aren't from NH, and therefore you don't know what you're talking about. Are you really suggesting that the members of the legendary Free State Project aren't real libertarians? *Gasp*!

  • @antiquefeminist Is this the same free state that has banned fish pedicures? You want a true libertarian, Ron Paul. You guys have a bunch of posers who want to get elected in a state full of independents, who are sick of the single party system we have. Not my fault, I vote true libertarian, not neo cons. New Hampshire was the FIRST state to recognize gay civil unions WITHOUT a legal challenge. Progressives didn't do it, Neo Cons didn't. Who did?

  • @asleeperj So, you aren't aware that NH passed a law legalizing gay marriage. It was Democrats who did it, btw. Not your libertarian buddies. They're working with the GOP and the Christian right to overturn the law.

    I loathe Ron Paul - but your embrace of him explains why you're trolling a NH website. Paullowers have unlimited time to hassle people on the internet.

  • Did you watch the interview when she speaks about her internet site? It's ez-casino(dot)com, she said that she was making money with that technique before being famous...

  • Lol I don't get it. It is natural.... what's the problem?

  • this is so funny! fish pedicure is very popular here in malaysia and there is no problem with hygiene.

  • i can see new hampshires gov. " nah our people dont need helmets to drive a motorcyle , so helmets arent required....but they need the dead skin on their feet....so NO to fish therapy... WTF? ..arent they worried about the lakes we swim in?why arent they sanitizing those...if these fish ae so called dangerous to us ?

  • Is this for real - this ban? This is absolutely maddening! What I want to know is: what can we do about this attempt to ban fish pedicures? As a citizen, I want to know what I can do to fight this deplorable cause. We can not have a motto like "Live free or die" and tolerate this kind of shit. This is unbelievable. I am going to make hell for these people.

  • @DermochelysCoriacea I correct myself. What can we do about the NH ban of foot pedicures? I am fucking bullshit!

  • I am not a doctor, but I do know that leeches are still in use .

  • @chickadee2 in england they use maggots to cleanse wounds

  • No, there is a push right now in the NH House and to some extent the Senate for a Sales or an Income Tax. Our exalted Governor "Smiling" John Lynch is now waiting to see which way the political winds blow for expanded gambling. He has no backbone. I wish he would take a clear position on anything. NH is a mess. We've been slowly infiltrated by the Commonwealth.

  • Yes, Just do a google search of use of leeches for medical use. Some doctors still use them to this day. So what the hell is the problem with this?????

  • The home a bigotry, blonds, and fat people. Sadly, welcome to America.

  • Where is our freedom going??? Down the drain D:

  • they use maggots to clean wounds and they are applied by doctors, they are living and cannot be sanitized

  • @Axenmoon They also, still to this day use leeches, but we are not suppose to know about that one.

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  • @chickadee2 dont they promote blood vessel growth? i remember something about a girl getting her face ripped off by a dog and they used leeches to help restore part of her ear

  • The USA is a Corporate Totalitarian State.

  • this is why America is going downhill

  • She shouldn't call this a pedicure or a fish bath.

    She should call it a fish feeding. And charge people to feed the fishes with their scaby feet.

  • RACIST!!!!!!! ASIAN NAILS FTW!!!!!!

  • THEM R ACIST BI SH, banning ma asian bud's inventions :(

  • why bcoz owned by asian...?

  • Fish Pedicures-Lazy Fun Bath.

  • yeah, walking barefoot in locker rooms should be illegal, also swimming in lakes, rivers and oceans - they may contain unsanitized fish!!!

  • lol hippies use backdoor

  • Ever get athlete's foot from walking barefoot in a lockerroom. Does it bleed? They have major problems with Hep C in Asia - not the best pioneer of "new" sanitary products.

  • It's not a nanny state - It's a god damned BIG BROTHER state and this , so called land of the free , is nothing more than myth, at best ! This country has HAD IT !!

  • whoever reply to me: ITS STILL DISGUSTING!!!

  • 1:18 - First to bring it to "New England"???

  • Wow. Of all the things the government worries about, it's fish pedicures.

  • She should move back to Vietnam if she is looking for freedom. The United States is the last place anyone should look for freedom. Biggest Government on the planet!

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  • I was running a small family restaurant in Brooklyn, NY. average $25-30 000 A month & only 2 employees. rent only $ 3000 a month.

    u would think good $ RIGHT ? wrong i had to close down . it was not worth the trouble. NY city will suck you dry & just wont let you work.

  • i know its so many stupid fee and BS you pay for to start a business.

  • stop talk to uncle jhonny about whats legal before start biza nezz

  • They could sanitize the tanks... they didn't seem very clean at all. The law makes sense to me- although is it unfortunate.

  • Theirs filters and everything in the little buckets! pretty sanitized for me! Its fish eating. THE LAST SONG SOUNDS LIKE A HAPPY NINE INCH NAILS! EAT YOUR HEART OUT TRENT REZNOR

  • Business owners eliminating competition. That's what this is all about. THAT'S political America. If you can't kick upstairs to feed the scum then you aren't allowed to eat for yourself. It corrupts almost EVERY industry. Have a new and interesting money making idea? Watch out. Those in charge will denounce and ban it until they themselves get the patent on it.

  • the issue is sanitation... when china exports its lead tainted products we complain

  • who gives a shit??

  • obama did it

  • ARE YOU KIDDING ME? that is absolutely the dumbest thing to ban, they are fish!

  • Maybe the fish are upset? Since no one else complained it must be the fish.

  • it's the government's job to do away with any business that poses a threat to their rackets.

  • These "officials" are total idiots. If they really knew what they were doing, they would have a real job. As it is, they are a total drag on the economy with their bloated salaries and their ridiculous regulations. The love their little power trips.

  • just another case of the ever growing government taking away our freedoms

  • are the fish not scared if you accidentally twitch, then?

  • half this country doesn't even know what freedom is

  • This governments war on business has no end. Until we end it that is. You get the government you vote for.

  • thats nasty poor animals,,,,,so because this then lets our dogs eat our poop,,,since they wont recognize when they are super hungry they will eat it !

  • thats true

    poor fish

    they have no concious so we take advantage

    only an asian

  • @Maratrushka are you stupid or are you pretending to be! you CAN'T decide what animals eats!!! something that is disgusting to you to an animal might the most delicious food in the world!!

    and people stop making comments without the proper knowledge!!!

  • iT LOOKS NASTY.

  • I think that Klein is pushing his own likes and dislikes in this case. After all, he has the power as a senator, so why not just ban everything he finds not to his liking? The fish and the people receiving the treatment don't seem to be suffering from horrible infections or diseases. I'm guessing fun will be outlawed next.

  • If most people understood what we feed the animals we consume for food, this fish thing would be a non-issue, healthwise.

  • I live in Singapore and this is normal. That's right, this is even allowed in Singapore.

  • What do they do starve fishes so they will nibble on your disgusting stinky feet. I'm glad they shut that down that's revolting. Yeah sure they do that to dead fish in the water and then humans eat them. So what. It is making me sick watching this. That is as bad as sitting in a hot tub with someones dingle berries floating around and anothers using their spawning techniques. No thank you community people.

  • im pretty sure its all racism.

  • you are all wrong, new hampshire knows that fish have been known to suck out the souls of women and they are trying to save you.

  • Great video!

    We have a RIGHT to a free market in cosmetology (and health care for that matter...)

    Our natural rights to liberty and property add up to a natural right to a free market.

    When the govt tells us we can't buy whatever we want (as long as we are not violating the rights of others) it violates our rights.

    Free minds and free markets!

  • @freesk8

    That is like saying you want a camel to lick you *ss. To give it that silky smooth texture only camel *ss licking provides. It's sick.

  • @krrrruptidsoless As long as you own the camel, or have rented it voluntarily from the owner, it is your right to have a camel lick your *ss.

    But fish eating the dead skin off of your feet is not nearly as bad for the fish as licking your *ss would be for the camel. It's actually good for the fish.

    I'd say that if this kind of thing starts happening, that PETA could get some good PR and drum up lots of donations from it.

  • It's jealousy and what about the bottom feeders that make up congress? If you could put these little guys up your ass it would be ok and cool I guess.

  • She has the right to keep her fishees! Back off regulators!

  • This isn't salt-water. This is fresh water. What if someone has a cut on their toes, then throw in the algae, then let the next person put their toes and algae into the same tank. The shit is NOT SAFE. And "We do lots of research - we talk to lots of people."  Listen, one or two fish pedicures to a few individuals is not a big deal. But if you get 20 or 30 people dipping their toes into this cesspool, disease will spread. Then people will complain that "they" let it happen to the public.

  • God damn idiots. Stop spouting shit. As a marine biologist, I can tell you immediatley that everything you say is pure shit. The fitlration systems REQUIRED for this sort of use can make the water practically POTABLE. ALGAE? ALGAE WONT DO SHIT TO YOU.

  • that was supposed to be a reply to anotherfootonthehill

  • @azncardninja169 - Listen, if you're going to proclaim that you are a "marine biologist" at least spell and articulate yourself well enough to be convincing. No doubt your authority goes little beyond having once owned a goldfish.

  • @anotherfoolonthehlLL you do realize that they have to change the water and check customers for illnesses and infections BEFORE and AFTER every single session? And of course it isn't saltwater, these fish would not survive in saltwater. But, I don't see what difference dirty and clean saltwater makes with dirty and clean freshwater.

  • @XKokeAndSoupX - Thanks for the civil response. It's really about regulation. Say the woman wants to sell her homemade meatloaf in the lobby. We've never heard of a meatloaf epidemic. But we can't just let people go around selling their meatloaf to the general public without regulation. Staph infection is running rampant these days; people pick up blights from lakes and streams all the time. Though salt-water may be more sanitary, this is like sharing the same bath water over and over!

  • @anotherfoolonthehlLL I do agree with regulating the fish treatment industry. Sanitation checks and fish health condition checks should be done, but not so frequently to the point where it becomes harassment. However, just banning the whole industry? That's going a bit far.

  • Very informative video. I learned about the fish and that while a good idea I would have to leave the state to get this service. Sad story. Is the fee market really free, or are Americans living in a fantasy? Makes you wonder, if the free market is not really free, maybe our so called Republic is only that on paper.

  • i want one!! and im a guy! lol, sounds awesome

  • It seems as though half the country wants the government to tell them how to live, the other half wants a less intrusive, smaller government. What are we to do?

  • Why the hell would you ban baggy pants? What about people who have bloating or are fat?

  • If people were sitting in the tank, it might be an issue, but feet, no sure...

  • big brother already rules your lives... it's like being stuck in a bad relationship

  • cool video

  • AWESOME!!! NAIL HIT ON HEAD!!! STATE REGULATORS ARE COMPETITORS!!! I guess nobody goes to the beach nor rivers in these states. You see, fish are always nibbling at everyone including sharks and no one has banned beaches nor rivers. GO FIGURE!!! Love, Peace

    God bless

  • Fuck God

  • I'd love to see you try.

    First of all, god doesn't exist.

    Second of all, if he did exist, you couldn't make him take it.

    But good luck trying.

  • I really really cannot stand these idiots and there dumb rules. Jeez they are harmless little fish. Should I fill out a form everytime I come from the beach?

  • there is no "junior-league" issue when it comes to issues of freedom. freedom is freedom, whether it's healthcare, or fish pedicures.

  • Poor fish...no more food

  • So quick to jump the gun aren't we...stupid ass regulators...

  • "She's a witch! Burn her!!!!!!!"

  • i tried this b4 , awesome i tell u , haha ticklish only.!

  • the real problem the government sees with the fishes id hygiene. If tens of people use the fishes for pedicure, skin diseases might spread. But I believe the answer is not banning but screening and feet sanitation before the pedicure.

  • I got aids from fish true story

  • LAIR LAIR PANTS ON FIRE xD

  • You Americans are so messed up that are against the new healthcare system. Come to Europe and see how a good healthcare system is run, and everyone can get the care they need. Shame on the USA for taking such a long time to correct the errors of the past. How many millions have died because your system let them down? Now you call this a socialist system? Idiots! What about the bus system in NY city that must be a socialist bus system?

  • How far into socialism and protectionism will America slide before the American people stand up and rebel?

  • Fishy !

  • How ridiculous.

  • If this is animal cruelty so is anything to do with humans interacting with animals.

  • Here's another example of BIG BROTHER government pulling their foot out of their asses and inserting it into their mouths.

  • damn these people can't wash their feet in the shower? they actually want to pay for this kind of nonsense?

  • vote 'em out> vote them all out! don't replace them with anybody but, the one that will repeal the dirt of the last.

  • what if you squish a fish on accident? lol

  • wow, proof that theres tons of stupid people still alive and in positions of power.

    let the damn fish nibble on my feet

  • wow i cannot believe some dum ass politician would jus try to make a name for himself banning things that.... have no casualties....

  • Obama hates America and will continue to remove rights from American citizens

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  • How about they just have the clients sign a waiver?

  • wow what crap!

    its too bad that we cant do this here

    it looks harmles but i saw a news report about this fish thing and it said is was really bad for you

    this fish pedi shoud be looked at by a nonprofit group to see if its farmfull to people

  • I worked at Kims when we first got the sigh. The board was scared of the fish spreading MRSA. Let me tell you, I had my hands in those tanks day in and out for feeding and testing the water, I havent caught a thing. We also used my hands as examples, my right hand was SOOOO soft and my left had was a little rough. Guess which hand was going in that tank. There is NO reason for this to not be allowed. The board was upset because of compatation!!!

  • @flygrl69 did you have your hand in the water after you introduced MRSA into it to see if it would spread? and shouldnt someone have tested those theories of spreading of infection before you introduced it to the public?

  • It's a good video, but kinda jr league to be worrying about this stuff when they just took over health care.

  • I kind of agree with you, but sometimes it's the small things that get nanny voters to think about their actions.

  • The small things are just as significant because they add up to a whole lot of loss of control of our own lives.

  • The only health danger ------ if the pedicure was done with sharks.

  • ha.. if you cook the fish.. they all die! lol

  • Bacon dogs. Oh god, now I'm drooling!

    On the other hand, I once had a Bacon Burger (the patty was made from pressed, chopped bacon) and it actually wasn't that good. It didn't really taste like bacon, to tell you the truth.

    Now that I think about it, every time I have an "exotic" burger (I've has ostrich burgers, boar burgers, deer burgers, etc), I've been disappointed.

    Gimme a good 'ol cow burger any day!

    I've never tried a bacon hot dog thoug. I like to think I have an open mind...

  • Cool video. I will say though... @4:59, We ARE in bigger trouble then we thought. Our nation is dumbed down by public school, 98% of people believe we're in a Democracy instead of a Republic.

  • @pantadon my question is: How do we get a law passed to protect the rights and liberties of the minority if we do not use majority vote?

  • not having fish nibbling on our feet is one thing but having the Fed and the NWO nibbling on our lives is something even more dangerous!!!

  • Fish nibble on feet, because that's what little fish do. So what.

  • Obviously the politicians are looking for way for them to profit from the service and then it will be allowed wholesale !

  • You are free to do as your told...

  • Surgical techs can drop medicinal maggots into an abscess or osteomyelitis sequestrum, and they will eat the rotting bone or flesh, but you can't have fish nibble on your epidermis in a salon?

    that's insane.

  • lol good as always Reason. But what an odd place for a microwave...

  • im a nh resident and im just ashamed, what a crock, the state that does not care if your wearing a helmet while riding a bike. what happened to "live free or die"

  • Hilarious "Hippies use backdoor." at 5:21.

  • lol, good catch

  • fox guarding the hen house...hit the nail on the head.

    so much for the free market.

  • God, that ticks me off so much. There's always a conflict of interest in government regulation. If it makes no sense, then you can bet that somebody is probably trying to save their own butt.

  • Im so Pissed off at government Im ready to explode. One regulation after another FFS, leave us the F$#% alone, collect taxes and f off. You are our employees, about time we start treating them as such

  • I'm ashamed for America in the face of immigrants who've come to this country for the promise of freedom. Sorry, immigrants, freedom seekers... we have failed to live up to our promise.

  • Fish pedicures are also banned in Washington and Texas, so do a video about those nanny states next, OK?

  • this is old news. alot of states have been banning fish peds for the last couple years.

    I can't believe how much bullshit is allowed to go down in this fucking country.

  • I have that same "Hippies Use Backdoor" sign!

  • This is probably the most natural way to give your feet a pedicure. Sharks have pilot fish and rhinos and hippos have birds that eat the bugs off their backs: I wonder if they consider that a hazard to wildlife and the environment.....

  • BREAKING: Obama proposes a ban on ALL income.

    /Future headline

  • New Hampshire, you have officially been transferred to the list of states that SUCK!!!

    I apologize to the native residents of NH, but the influx of citizens from other douche-bag states is dragging you down. Might I suggest you use the pitch-fork method to drive them out ^_^

  • 5 stars as usual

  • That sucks, I want one of those!

  • The ban, I mean.

  • Are they trying to be humorous with this one?

  • Barbering?? Lol. Because it's so fucking hard to cut hair.

  • WTF is "esthetics"?? Is that just a stupid way of spelling "aesthetics" or some weird field I don't know about? New Hampshire Board of Barbering, Cosmetology and Esthetics. Boy, that's a mouthful!

  • Wearing a seatbelt is not mandatory but a fish pedicure is dangerous? Residents of a neighboring state will move to their new state and pass laws that restrict rights or raise taxes which is why they left their home state in the first place. IL did it to IN and IA just like NY, MA, & CT have done to NH. I've also seen Californians try to do it Nevada.

  • They shut down a fish pedicure salon here in AZ, too. Ridiculous

  • Holy crap, Gillespie's pad is friggin awesome.

  • now the gangsters will be selling drugs and...fish treatment for your feet. i never thought i'd be scared of a guy with a glock and a bag of goldfish

  • you should stream the security cams of the Reason office live online...

  • This is no more unsanitary then Maggot therapy which has been used for thousands of years and still is in hospitals.

  • Freedom-loving American people should ban together to create a pro-liberty legal organization that can step in and support small business owners and challenge these absurd and over-reaching regulations.

  • The NH Board of Cosmetology exists mainly to ban competition through strict licensing and heavy regulation. Remember the "Outlaw Manicurist"? He was arrested for doing a civil disobedience manicure.

  • "Hippies Use Backdoor" Lol!

  • Why do dems hate America and the American dream?

  • he brushes his teeth in a leather jacket. that's badass

  • i have some dead skin on my feet that needs nibbling, too bad i live in new york.

  • If NH goes that way, we're doomed.

  • The government is nibbling at my wallet. We should ban that.

  • bacteria from feet will go in the water & the fish!

  • WHY?